Lycée Magazine

January 8, 2016 Featured / Week in Pictures

Week in Pictures January 4-8

Friday: Kindergarten classes get ready to have their yearbook photo taken on the patio of the school. Smile everyone! (credit: Roddy Rapson) Thursday: Two people keep track of the score and write down stats for a JV Boys Basketball game between the LFNY and Calhoun. Wednesday: Advisor Lucy Osborne checks

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Teaching the Pleasure of Communicating

For many Lycée students and parents, the 2015-2016 school year is their first experience in a bilingual school. Choosing a bilingual school is a tremendous opportunity for monolingual families, but it also raises questions about how being in a bilingual school impacts language development in children. The most important element

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December 11, 2015 Featured / Week in Pictures

Week in Pictures December 7-11

Vendredi: Cette élève du Diversity Club raconte aux autres membres son expérience à la conférence Student Diversity Leadership Conference, à laquelle elle a participé avec 5 autres élèves et qui a eu lieu du 2 au 5 décembre à Tampa, en Floride. Vendredi: Cette élève du club extrascolaire “Arabic Intermediate” compte en

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December 5, 2015 Bilingualism / Featured / Innovation / Primary

Metacognition and Learning to Learn

“Although thinking is innate, skillful thinking must be cultivated.” (Art Costa, 2008). Effective 21st century instruction teaches students how to think, not what to think. In 2013, The Huffington Post published an article arguing that many K-to-12 schools are not preparing students to be ready for the demands of today.

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November 21, 2015 Community / Featured / Secondary / Service Learning

Développer l’empathie chez les élèves

L’une des missions du Lycée Français de New York est de préparer ses élèves à être les citoyens responsables de demain. Pour l’établissement, cet apprentissage passe, depuis maintenant plus de 13 ans, par les activités de service communautaire (Community Service), et depuis 4 ans pour l’apprentissage par le service (Service

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November 21, 2015 Featured / Global Citizenship / Head of School

Upstanders Needed

When talking about ethics, especially the topics of how to live a virtuous life, how to build a just society and how to create a peaceful world, discussion can very quickly become complicated. Enter “what is the right thing to do” into any search engine and the leading source of

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November 20, 2015 Featured / Week in Pictures

Week in Pictures November 16-20

Friday: The World Languages (langues vivantes) Team meets to discuss ongoing projects during their weekly meeting. The team is made up of German, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin teachers working in the primary and secondary schools. Thursday: Halloween lingers at the Lycée Français…Pastel drawings on the theme are on display in the

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November 14, 2015 Featured / Global Citizenship / Head of School / Linguistic Exchanges

Oh, the Places They’ll Go*

We are careful at the LFNY not to allow digital devices to displace, let alone replace human interaction. Yet access to the internet can be a great support for intelligent conversation, as I experienced laptop in hand a few mornings ago in our 75th Street Lobby. My purpose: to ask

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November 12, 2015 Athletics / Featured

Fall 2015 Athletics Recap

What an exciting fall season in sports. It’s great to see our competitive sports program booming. To kick-off the fall season, 255 students from sixth-to-twelfth grade along with their coaches headed to Camp Pontiac (see photo slideshow above) in upstate New York for a week of pre-season practice and team-building.

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November 11, 2015 Alumni / Featured

War Journalist Jonathan Alpeyrie ’98 Comes Back to the LFNY

Tell us a little about how you decided to become a photojournalist… After the Lycée, I went to the University of Chicago to major in Medieval History and started my photography career by working for local newspapers. I quickly got bored and decided to take a year off in

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LYCÉE MAGAZINE

Gala 2025 Celebrates the Lycée at 90

The Key to Balanced Bilingualism

Cultivating Empathy and Kindness from an Early Age

Guide for a Fulfilling School Year – Part 2

Guide to a Fulfilling School Year – Part 1

Da Vinci Inspires a Fascinating Cross-Curricular Project

Teaching AI and the Blockchain with Refik Anadol

Concert of Francophone Voices

Week in Pictures January 4-8

Teaching the Pleasure of Communicating

Week in Pictures December 7-11

Metacognition and Learning to Learn

Développer l’empathie chez les élèves

Upstanders Needed

Week in Pictures November 16-20

Oh, the Places They’ll Go*

Fall 2015 Athletics Recap

War Journalist Jonathan Alpeyrie ’98 Comes Back to the LFNY